I thought he was more like the late great Hugo Ehiogu the way he threw everything into blocking shots. Great performance and so nice to see him clearly loving every minuteHis performance tonight reminded me of when Woodgate came into the team against Derby away in the 2014/15 season, hadn’t played for a long time but a masterclass in defending and reading of the ball.
You're right, Bamba is probably going to struggle to play twice a week, but I do hope he can make it through one more game before the international break. His experience and ability to organise our defensive play is part of the reason we won last night and we could really do with him in the side at the weekend. I think it's the most solid we've looked in defence since we moved from a back 3 last season. Having him in the side is probably the only way we can accommodate a back four. Our only weakness is the lack of pace of Peltier and Bamba, but once Dijksteel is back that's probably less of a problem.He was a man mountain last night. He was everywhere. Blocking shots, winning headers, marshalling the defence, leading the line, and he didn't give their strikers a moments peace.
He was incredible.
I very much doubt he'll be available on Saturday. It'll take him a week to recover from the amount of effort and work he put in last night.
A proper leader on the pitch yesterday and didn't leave anything left in the tank.
Surprised he had enough energy to walk off the pitch.
I also remember him playing for Leeds at our place and he was absolutely abysmal to the point he gift wrapped a goal for Fabbrini to seal us a 3-0 win.I remember him playing for Leeds at the Riverside a few years ago. He blocked everything we threw at them and they held on for a 1 nil win thanks to him. He was similar last night.